Fred on Meet The Press

I’m still looking for a leader – not a politician – who will address the abortion issue in this manner:

The Congress has before it several measures that would enable our people to reaffirm the sanctity of human life, even the smallest and the youngest and the most defenseless. The Human Life Bill expressly recognizes the unborn as human beings and accordingly protects them as persons under our Constitution. This bill, first introduced by Senator Jesse Helms, provided the vehicle for the Senate hearings in 1981 which contributed so much to our understanding of the real issue of abortion.

The Respect Human Life Act, just introduced in the 98th Congress, states in its first section that the policy of the United States is “to protect innocent life, both before and after birth.” This bill, sponsored by Congressman Henry Hyde and Senator Roger Jepsen, prohibits the federal government from performing abortions or assisting those who do so, except to save the life of the mother. It also addresses the pressing issue of infanticide which, as we have seen, flows inevitably from permissive abortion as another step in the denial of the inviolability of innocent human life.

I have endorsed each of these measures, as well as the more difficult route of constitutional amendment, and I will give these initiatives my full support. Each of them, in different ways, attempts to reverse the tragic policy of abortion-on-demand imposed by the Supreme Court ten years ago. Each of them is a decisive way to affirm the sanctity of human life.

Apparently, we no longer have leaders who care to discuss the sanctity of life anymore and who will publicly put their support behind measures that will grant protections to human life, before and after birth.

Nope. Now we simply haggle over federalism and states rights.

Fred! was good on MTP. He gave very reasoned answers and sounded like he had a very good grasp and good knowledge of all issues presented.

I’d vote for him, but a lot can happen in a year…

Fred Thompson On Meet The Press

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P.S. Michael in MI: I hope you will take the pledege to support whoever he eventual GOP nominee is, realizing that ALL of the top tier candiates will do more to curtail abortion than Hillary.

Considering none of the top tier candidates can even come close to Reagan’s message of discussing the sanctity of life, I don’t believe that one bit.

It is plain to see for me that the Pro-Life movement is over. No GOP candidate even dares to put forth a message of the importance of the sanctity of life and eliminating the evil of abortion as Reagan did. All any of them do is pander.

Slavery, jim crow laws, women’s suffrage movement. None of these movements succeeded by choosing the lesser of two panderers. Switch out what candidates say about abortion for slavery, Jim Crow laws or women’s rights and then take a look at the pandering again.

Honestly, I now believe there is no difference between any of the candidates. All anyone keeps telling me is “vote for me, because I am better than s/he”. Sorry, that doesn’t inspire people to care. I care about issues, not working to keep politicians out of office.

I thought that the Democrats winning Congress in 2006 would destroy this country. It hasn’t. And I not believe that Hillary Clinton in office will not destroy the country either.

The problem is that Conservatives are being told to throw their principles and values to the wayside in order to keep Hillary and Democrats out of office. That tells me right there that the Conservative movement and the Pro-life movement is over.

And it disgusts me.

Please, let’s pick someone we can be proud of on the world stage

I could care less who the rest of the world thinks is the right person for the job, or how proud we can be of our President on the world stage. The fact that this matters to you is quite telling.

I care about the President being able to lead this country and protect it. I’m not sure which interview you saw because it certainly wasn’t this one. Fred gave substantive answers to every question. I understand your pulling for your guy (obviously Romney) but be a little honest in your assessment instead of trying to take him down a few notches with insults that your just pulling out of your hat.

Mike, tell me, did Reagan fix that abortion thing then?

The only real effect a President has on these kind of issues is putting forth judges to SCOTUS. His choices for the bench, Kennedy and O’Conner both banded together with the liberals to ensure Roe was NOT overturned in 1992. So while Reagan was an outstanding President he had no effect AT ALL on the abortion issue.

My main focus on choosing a President is who would lead and protect this country. Who would do the right thing even if the polls showed it wasn’t the popular thing.

So far Rudy, Fred, & Mitt come across as the most able to do those things.

You obviously are going to sit this one out because your a single issue voter. Quite sad but its your prerogative.

“You obviously are going to sit this one out because your a single issue voter. Quite sad but its your prerogative.”

So apparently the sanctity of life is a single issue that is unimportant. I see.

Reagan did not end abortion, but he inspired a nation to start discussing the sanctity of life. He inspired the Pro-Life movement. And then of course, Bush 41 and Clinton turned the country in the complete opposite direction.

It’s interesting to see people say that Clinton’s antics in office helped this country decline into moral decadence, but then say that Reagan’s efforts to do the opposite mean nothing.

If a President can’t do much about abortion, then there’s nothing to fear from Hillary either on the issue.

Until recently, when the Rudy supporters started getting belligerent and telling me that I better vote for Rudy and stop whining about abortion because it means nothing otherwise we will get Hillary… I was going to support the GOP nominee. But now, I am getting completely turned off to politics, because I see it is not about values, it is not about principles, it is not about jack-squat. It’s about bullying people into voting for your candidate, or else. And if we don’t vote for the candidate of their choice, and throw our principles and values to the wind, then we are idiots and foolish and ushering in the evil Hillary who is going to destroy this country.

Just once I would like to hear someone tell me that I should vote according to my principles and values and for whom I believe represents those principles and values. Instead, I get bullying and accusations that I am a single-issue voter and that single-issue, the sanctity of life, means nothing.

Well, I’ll tell you what, if that is the case, then my vote must mean nothing to. So, yes, I’ll probably sit out if I don’t see a leader with integrity and principles in the upcoming election.

And anyone who considers the sanctity of life a non-issue, they don’t deserve my vote.

Fred towers above the competition. He had said he doesn’t do frantic, and he didn’t this time either. He clearly understand the trade offs in the Middle East. How many of his “competitors” would even go into the lack of human intelligence there? He clearly sees the substance and the image aspect of the “big war”, and how the Iraq and Iran conflicts relate to it. I don’t understand why it’s not clear to anyone who is interested in any issues than total and immediate Federal abortion ban that this man has the breadth, depth, and temperament to be the next President of the United States.

Unite behind the only man that can unify the Republican party and beat Hillary or another Soros puppet at their own game. I don’t want the distraction of being ambiguous on illegal immigration, inconsistent positions on abortion or various gay unions, non-mainstream religious beliefs (and I’m an atheist) to de-focus our attention from the main goal: to prevent the Socialist from taking over the economy and destroying the defense capabilities of the United States along with it. Vote for Fred!

Also, I have asked this question in numerous places and have yet to get a response.

The 2004 Republican platform was Pro-Life. If Rudy Giuliani gets the nomination, would the 2008 Platform then be Pro-Choice, since he is Pro-Choice? Or would the GOP have a nominee whose positions are in opposition to the Party platform?

John, oh well the odds were are little bit more in his favor a couple of months ago on intrade. Has there really been any new information since then?